I finally got around to planning the next article in my "Introduction to bfg" series which will hope be done in a week or so. At one point when writing it I was trying to describe why I used the context models in such an "unconventional way". I concluded that at least for me, it is because patterns like Model View Controller, and Model View Template as implemented by some web frameworks today only provide a partial solution to managing application complexity.

I recently helped out on a ASP.Net project after doing projects in other Web Application stacks for a couple of years. And let me tell you it was painful. I haven't done any research into what Microsoft is promising in the next version to come out with Visual Studio 2008 but getting back into this stuff made my brain hurt.

I would tend to categorize ASP.Net development as abuse of your technical resources. The process is indeed painful for one reason or another. And it's a bit baffling to me why there is so much demand for it.